Karen Grogan (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I also rise to make broad and wild statements about the questions asked today of Senator Watt. It's wideranging, yes, because having such a broad remit here is quite good. The first thing, just to be really clear, is the manner in which this debate has rolled on over the last two days. There has been the asking of questions and no sense of wanting to hear the answers at all. On the foot mats: it's very clear they were decided upon by the minister. They were announced by the minister. They were commissioned by the minister. And they were then installed. They were installed on Monday. The numbers given were appropriate numbers.

I think the entire approach here has been wild—I appreciate that the opposition may be suffering with quite a lot of grief at the moment, but the behaviour—